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The United
States is rated internationally to be behind other countries in Math, Science,
and Reading. Today, many of the science, technology, engineering, and math
related jobs are filled by foreign nationals due the shortage of competent
Americans to occupy these positions. Over the past decades, its is believed
that American schools have not been producing students competent enough to fill
positions that are crucial to the viability and sustainability of the country
economically and politically.
According to
the Program for International Student Assessment (pisa), the United States
stands in the middle of 65 countries in terms of performance rankings in Math,
Science, and Reading. In 2012 U. S students scored 43.78 % in Math compared to
Canada with 52.16%, Netherlands 53.50%, Korea 58.76%, and Shanghai – China with
69.44% www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings
Other
sources with similar results are as follows: www.npr.org
Education Week; www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/12/03/14pisa.h33.html,
and the Brookings Institute;
www.brookings.edu/blogs/brown-center-chalkboard/posts/2013/10/09-pisa-china-problem.loveless
Due to the
competency drought in America of having qualified students to fill our
engineering, science, techonology, and Math jobs, Congress has decided to pass
a bill into law that would increase the number of foreign nationals who can come to America to fill some of these technology jobs that the country has no
qualified Americans to fill. According to the U. S. Immigration Service, every
year, it gives 65,000 highly skilled foreign nationals H-1B visa to come and
fill a lot of these vacant positions
www.us.immigration.gov/blog/h-1bvisa-and-immigration-reform? Congress wants
that number to increase to 110,000 instead. Technology companies are backing
Congress for this proposed bill because they have a huge shortage. www.usnews.com
This seems
to be a crisis in the United States, a developed nation and leader of the free
world. We need to revamp our education system and do something about the crisis. It
should be the responsibility of all Americans, especially educators to do their
best to find some solutions to the crisis. Politicians, teachers, educators,
parents, and all stakeholders, need to rise to the occasion.
Doing my
part as a concerned educator, I have invented board-games and teaching
strategies that can be used to enhance retention and comprehension; two
critical areas of teaching and learning. I have tested and used thses games and
strategies and have found them very effective. I tested them in at-risk
learning environments or among low-performing students in a few high schools and got good results.
A couple of
years ago I tried to manufacture some of these games to market but the manufacturing
cost was too high and I also lacked the marketable expertise. I want these games to be
out there so that they can help enhance the learning and teaching performances of our students and teachers. I am also willing to sell my copyright for one of my
educational games; Intelexer-S which was created in 2010. It is designed to help high school students learn rigorously in a fun-oriented setting but will be able to retain and comprehend the concepts and subject studied.
With rigor,
students can have fun learning Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Pre-calculus and
calculus, and social science subjects as well. Giving up my right is hard but I
am willing to let it go for $3,000,000. This game or learning mechanism will become exclusively yours. You will become the sole owner of INTELEXER - S. This game can potentially be
transformed into a software, and computerized. You have the copyright to
manufacture and sell as many games as you want. To verify my copyright
entitlement please visit www.loc.gov Not only will you be making fortune from this innovative educational specimen, you will be contributing immensely to twenty-first century teaching and learning. You will have a piece of innovation that can play a key role in ameliorating the teaching and learning paradigm both nationally and globally. Retention and Comprehension are two critical and crucial elements in learning. Any teaching strategy, methodology, or mechanism that can make these two elements stick in the process of learning, then the goal for teaching has been met. The insight students will glean from learning will enable them to prudently act upon it and recreate their creativity and activity to better themselves and society, which is just what we want for our students because the future of our nation lies in their hands.